Spammers, house
Posted by bert hubert Tue, 11 Jul 2006 06:41:00 GMT
Ok, I no longer think spammers should be shot. I now think they should be force fed their own intestines, and THEN be shot.
I’m usually a friendly kind of person, but I now estimate that I lose around 5% of my productivity on cleaning out spam from Wikis, bug trackers or mailing list queues, not even mentioning deleting unfilterable spam from my own mailbox.
The latest thing has been spammers who not just tack on advertising to the fine PowerDNS wiki, but actively delete existing content and replace it by their own advertising.
Perhaps Guantanamo does have a purpose.
Mortgage
Well, it turns out banks aren’t crazy (see previous post). If you negotiate a cut rate mortgage, they’ll start to eliminate risk left and right, because the deal is not worth it for them otherwise.
I’ve now had to provide documentation on my father, brother, all real estate agents involved, shoe sizes, and loads of other crap. Next I think they’ll ask for my swimming certificate. But they are now committed, in that they’ve provided the all important guarantee on the 10% downpayment. Which is good as it was due today :-)
